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Chicago examiner saturday saturday Chicago march 30 1912 18 pages rejlstered in prtpp onf rffent delivered b carrier u s patent office tru*-e uinc '*^ n l 30 cents per monti vol x no 86 a m agitator tries to kill sheriff in fight at rock island armed man arrested for in cendiary talk draws re volver but is held by crowd before he can shoot john looney editor of paper fighting mayor to be ar rested for misuse of u s mails by postoffice officials bock island march 29 the at tempted murder of sheriff bruner and the forthcoming arrest of editor john looney were the sensational features of to-day's developments m the rock island riots only the rush of spectators saved bru iser's life his assailant john mccarthy an agitator is m jail to-night under a heavy militia guard looney as soon as he recovers from the beating administered him by mayor bchrlver will be taken into custody by the united states postoffice officials on a charge of sending scandalous libelous and obscene matter through the mails the charge is based on the publication of the story iv last saturday's issue of mr looney'ts paper the rock island news in which the editor declared that mayor scbrlver had spent a night m company with a Chicago politician a woman named ethel and another woman m a moline resort it was this story which caused the battle between looney and scbrlver the attack on the editor being held as the cause of the recent fatal riots would have shot mayor sheriff bruner m making his rounds of the dty to-night stopped at the harper hotel in the barroom mccarthy a labor agitator from galesburg was loudly pro claiming that he had witnessed tuesday's riot and that had he been possessed of a levolver he would have shot mayor schrlter sheriff bruner overheard the remark and attempted to place mccarthy under arrest without exciting the attention of the other occupants of the room as soon aa he told mccarthy that be was under new tariff bill is planned to cheapen breakfast table cost spring vegetables especially high m Chicago to be affected aiso potatoes | washington march 29 50 many ap peals have been made to the democratic house of representatives lo reduce the high cost of living that the ways and means committee is considering the ad visability of reporting out a measureâ€”al ready christened the breakfast table bill which wil lreduce the tariff on every arti cle of food used m the american household if the comittee decides on this action the bill will be the last tariff measure pre pared at this session of congress and vill be presented to the house as the culmi nating effort of the democratic majority to alleviate the condition of millions of people who find it difficult to keep their larders stocked with health-giving food the bill will aim particularly at meats fruits and vegetables and the tariffs will be low enough to allow these commodities to be brought m from other countries nnd to be sold with a reasonable profit to the dealer below the prices the housekeeper now hos to pay for the homegrown prod ucts one effect pt the bill will be to cut down the high prices now demanded for early spring vegetables by making possi ble the importation of large quantities from the south american markets appeals for relief m this direction have been made m greatest number by residents of Chicago another effect will be to open the amer ican luarket to the potatoes grown cheaply and m great quantities m labrador and the maritime provinces and it is believed that the result would be to reduce the prices paid for this staple vegetable Taft sleeps as he poses artist who painted portrait unable to keep him awake washington march 29 - theodore molkeuboer the german artist who has just finished painting president taft's portrait is relating an amusing story of how the chief executive slept for nearly two hours m an arm chair while the artist tried to keep him awake so he could get a good likeness despite the artist's ef forts mr Taft slept on and the face of the picture atoiough it is that of a man laughing was painted while the president wae dreaming he had been elected for an other term atlantic city pier burns atlantic city n j march 2r young's famous ocean pier caught fire late to-night and was almost entirely destroyed the loss is estimated at 400,000 the fire for a time threatened young's hotel facing it worth 500,000 and the dunlop hotel and savoy theater m its near vicinity the firemen however man j aged to control it let every man look at his clothes and then at the calendar to-day by j r hamilton it is just a week till easter if you don't stop to think fit now you will look like a derelict then there isn't a savage from the behring straits clear down to zambesi who doesn't at least get a new string of beads the moment he sniffs the spring it would really seem that the more clothes a man puts on the less careful he is of their looks but this is only so of america in london m paris m budapest even m cairo a good tramp will often look like a millionaire it is only m america that a good millionaire always looks like a tramp however the great majority of us being neither mil lionaires nor tramps can djford to dress well the year is prosperous crops are good business is good the only thing bad is our own bad habit of putting off the buying of clothes we'll wear an old suit till the shine on our shoes grows jealous of the shine on our trousers we'll wear our old hat as long as it doesn't actually have holes and we'll wear our old shoes longer now we have come to the time when the clothes question won't be put off easter sunday is just a week away that is the turning of the year â€” especially the turning of the clothes year everybody will be dressed up next sunday m honor of the oldest festival m the world if you don't want to feel out of place you must get into line now here is your paper all through it to-day is the advertising news of what to wear these merchants who advertise have learned to take far belter care of you than you take of yourself they have been studying the new spring styles for months even before christmas they had picked the finest fabrics from all the looms of the world and had made their choice of clothes they have been working hard for you every one of them and the things that they have done they have told you about m this paper to-day three months of their time ought to be worth five minutes of yours give it to them cheerfully turn to the advertising pages now see what they have to offer you read every advertisement large and small very often the small mer chant is going to become the large merchant when he is multiplied by time choose the style of suit and hat and boots that pleases you best pick out the man who has the finest stock of shirts and ties all of these things are represented here m the advertising news of this paper to-day turn to that news now it isjhews news you will find slays niece who jilted shoots self discarded man stalks rela tive from church sending bullets into brain falls dying at her side wasting of money saved for home cause of separation and the tragedy miss domoeole bladzius was shot and killed last night at north wood and ellen i streets by her uncle joseph ziiinzki | whom she had jilted the girl was returning from church and j had her prayer book and rosary m her bauds zilinski who had threatened her before walked behind her and fired over j the shoulder of her friend mrs rose val ancius who had accompanied her to church three bullets entered the girl's brain she died on the operating table ; at st elizabeth's hospital half an hour after zilinski fired a bullet into his r^ght temple after he was sure the girl was wounded fatally and it passed through his bead and protruded through the flesh of the left temple he was found lying m a ' pool of blood beside his sweetheart hears sermon thou shalt not kill zilinski followed his former fiancee and mrs valancius to a missionary sei-vice held m st michael's lutheran catholic church north paulina street and wabansia ave nue the sermon preached by the rev n lukaszuis was on the commandment thou shalt not kill during the services zilinski sat m the pew back of miss bladzius and mrs valancius the priest urged his congregation to make peace with its fellow men but zilinski evidently was paying little heed when the two women walked toward home after the services ilinski followed close at their heels they knew that he was behind them finally he overtook them at north wood and ellen streets mrs valancius tried to save the girl by standing close to her the infuriated sweetheart raised his arm placed the re volver over the shoulder of the older worn j an and fired the three shots that took ef ! feet m the brain of the young woman quickly then he put the bullet iv his own head that he hoped would kill him both zilinski and miss bladzius were found m the pool of blood on the walk mrs valancius bending over the girl weep ing the rosary and prayer book were held firmly iv the hands that still were clasped tightly when the girl died m the hospital zilinski though seriously injured scarce ly could be held m bed two policemen were detailed to watch him and hold him down spends 2,000 saved for a home both zilinski and bis sweetheart have l been working for the victor tailoring i company at milwaukee avenue and north wood street in spite of their blood re lationship they were engaged but not long ago the girl refused to marry him when she found that he bad spent 2,000 that they had saved for a home since then he had followed and threat ened her a week ago he hurled a brick through the window of the bladzius home and it just missed hitting the young woman a warrant was lsued for his ar rest but he could not be found as he had no fixed residence motorcycle policeman a l fitch was severely injured when going to the scene of the shooting his machine swerved against a curbstone and his right arm and right leg were hurt he too was taken to st elizabeth's hospital fitch edward eisenberg and detectives binder and sullivan of the rawson street station heard the shooting and hurried to the scene schools bar tick-tick board of education to request nick el last apparatus m buildings the committee ou school management of the board ot education decided that if the proposed telephone ordinance goes into effect nickel first telephones will not be satisfactory m the public schools the company will be asked to restore nickel last telephones in about fifty schools where it substituted nickel first tele phones recently it is said without au thority of the board a delegation from gage park appeared before the commit tee and asked for a new school m place of the four-room branch of the shields school at west fifty-fifth street and south west ern avenue another delegation asked for an addition to the ryerson school because of crowded conditions these requests were referred to the superintendent senator taylor is dying doctor has no hope for recovery wife at bedside washington d c march 29.â€”sen ator robert l taylor of tennessee is dy ing there is no hope for his recovery senator taylor is growing weaker said dr harrison crook the attending physi cian he will probably live until morn ing but bis condition is extremely crit ical mrs taylor lias been constantly at the bedsire of fiddling bob since he becam-c ill about two weeks ago i ( freel allen captured only two at large you won't get us alive their message sidna edwards photographed as he was being taken to a cell by d etectives the large picture is that of sidna allen one of the two ontl aws who are uncaptured and who say they will die fighting the picture on the right is of freel allen who was captured the other is of jack allen his father who offered to betray the clan to save his son 1 a day pensions defeated in senate instead upper house passes mccumber bill carrying 24,000,000 increase provisions of pension bill the state passed rj~<he mccumber pension bill \ -*â– which was passed by the > senate last night provides that > any soldier who served ninety days \ or more shall 6e placed upon the \ pension rolls on the following < basis > length of service ) age 90 dÂ»y i year 2 years 3 years c 62 13 14 15 16 5 66 15 16 17 18 s 70 18 20 22 24 jj 75 21 24 27 30 cj washington march 29.-by a rote of 51 to 16 the semite to-night defeated the sherwood dollar-a-day pension bill and passed in its stead the mccumber general age and service pension bill which will in crease the present pension roll by 24 000.000 per year the sherwood bill car ried an average annual expenditure of 56 coo.ooo for fire years under the mccumber bill the payments run from 13 a mouth for a veteran sixty two years of age who served ninety days in the military or naval service to 30 a month for a veteran of seventy-five years who served three years or more the senate bill retains only one portion of the sherwood bill as it passed the house this being the provision that gives the maximum pensiou of 30 a month to any soldier or sailor of the civil war who was wounded in the line of duty and who was honorably discharged and who is now unable to perform manual labor the semite voted down axi amendment offered by senator williams of mississippi denying the benefits of the proposed law to veterans who have an income over 1,200 a year but afterward accepted an amend ment by senator lea of tennessee denying pensions to persons whose income exceeds 2,400 the adoption of the amendment it is believed will reduce considerably the es timate of the additional annual expenditure under the measure the senate also refused to give its ap proval to an amendment that would com pel the publication of the pension list in at least one paper in each state deneen has the grip governor's physician orders him to remain m bed until monday springfield march 28 governor de neen was taken ill suddenly with the grip last evening dr l c taylor his phy sician was summoned and the executive was ordered to bed dr taylor said tbat the governor's temperature was high and that he would not be able to leave his bed before monday at the earliest to-day he passed a partxof the forenoon dictating to james whitwter his private secretary i ' \ wife shocked even reno hudson charge | files cross bill accusing her of taking part m peculiar dance there sensational charges of wild escapades m the reno dlvodce colony involving dancing of a highly improper nature m road houses near the nevada city last new year's eve are contained m a cross-bill filed yesterday by chai'les w hudson m answer to the suit for a dissolution of the marriage tie brought by his wife viola steamboat springs a resort a few miles from reno and two other road houses iv the vicinity are named by hudsou as the places where his wife took part m the fes tivities hudson who is a member of the real estate and contracting firm of hud sou &. sons 3201 south wabash avenue declares he has no objections to his wife's obtaining a divorce but is opposed to her having custody of their three-year-old daughter who is now with her grand parents m Chicago detectives employed by hudson are suid to have furnished the basis for the charges made by hudson yesterday was the last day allowed for the filing of hudson's answer to the suit and the preparations for a contest which he has evidently made are taken as an indication that there will be a bitter legal battle over the affair he hopes to gain his case without leaving Chicago the cross bill was filed following the overrul ing of his demurrer by judge ducker m the superior court at reno when a woman becomes notorious m the free and easy divorce colony she has to do quite a little said he every day mrs hudson stays m the nevada city she adds to the proof that she ought not to be allowed to have the child and i tblnk that she is defeating her own purpose mrs hudson formerly was miss viola mckenna judge elbridge hanecy is coun sel for hudson who resides at 4129 prai rie avenue boy prisoner tells how court house shooting was done by clan by joseph j o'neil hillsville va march 20 1t will be a battle to the death if the detectives ever take us back to hillsville it will be m a wagon with our toes turned up and our boots on and there will be some of them m the same wagon neither of us expects to see home or family again we have three revolvers and a pump gun and plenty of ammuni tion if we are sighted we will shoot to kill we will never surrender this message from sidna allen and wes ley edwards was brought into town this afternoon by young freel allen a girlish looking lad of seventeen who had been hiding out m the mountains since the courthouse slaughter he was captured to-day unresistingly hiding iv the car riage house behind his father's home eight miles from here he left his uncle sidna and his cousin wesley two nights ago be cause as he expressed it he was plum starved out in addition to thrilling defiance he brought m the grave and important news that the court house shooting really was the result of a conspiracy---that the aliens planned it m advance r.nd that sida allen and wesley edwards at least had their victims selected tells how plot was arranged when we were lying out there under a shelved rock and hiding m the laurels and ivy said freel to the detectives uncle sidna said he had killed his man that was judge massie cousin wesley allowed that he had killed will foster the prosecu tor uncle sidna told me and wesley he had emptied his pistol three times and that what he was tvying to do was to kill the judge the jurors and the whole d d push he and wes said they had made it up beforehand uncle sid was to get judge massie wes was to shoot at will foster and some of the others of our crowd were to kill sheriff webb and dcx goad the olerk when freel left the others on wednes day night they were m a wild rugged section of the mountain tops twenty-one miles southwest of here they had been there eight or nine days ready for a fight at any moment every night camp they had made was close to some trank of a miss newberry is bride london march 28 â€” announcement was made to-day of the marriage of captain wentworth alieyne of the queen's ilegi ment and miss carol barnes newberry daughter of truman newberry of detroit former secretary olk the navy ships hired to rush u.s troops to mexico coastwise companies asked to be m readiness to convey soldiers 2 battleships and cruiser for new orleans entire army probably will be moved for invasion m april miles first time m months visits white house federal army under aubert is m full retreat before rebels guns dead and wounded are left behind washington march :.'.).â€” so critical is the situation m mexico that the united states government has entered into nego tiations with practically every steamship company operating vessels m the eastern coast trade to transport troops to that country for the purpose of interveutiou among these companies are the souts ern pacific which operates a line of big ships between new york and new orleans the mallory line which piies between new york and galveston the clyde line op erating between new york and jackson ville the ward line operating betvrene new york and havana it is understood also the government 1 ' also m negotiation with the united fruit company which owns thirty big ships many of them new and all constructed especially for transportation m the tropica it was admitted to-night by quartermas ter general j i aleshire that negotiation for steamship lines for the transportation of troops are now m progress secretary meyer announced to-day that two first-class battleships and a cruiser will be ordered at once to new orleans to participate m the celebration of the centennial of the admission of louisiana into the union as a state wilson can summon marines it is stated to-night however that the real object m sending these ships to the gulf of mexico is to have them handy to vera cruz where it is probable that they will be called upon to land marines at any time instructions were cabled to ambassador wil.-on to-day at mexico city authorizing him to summon marines to the aid of the embassy as soon as the situation becomes serious enough to demand such action the gunboat wheeling which has a small body of marines is now at galveston the cruiser montgomery at pensacola the nashville at santo domingo the paducah at santa cruz del sur cubs and the petrel at guantanamo all of these ships put to gether could only land 200 marines but added to bluejackets would afford an ac tive force of 600 men aubert m full retreat villa lopez chili mexico march 28 by courier to jimmezv after being caught m a trap and seemingly sur rounded on all sides by rebels pounding a terrible artillery fire into his ranks the federal command of general aubert whe managed to extricate himself last night got away in doing so he left behind one heavy cannon one mortar two machine guns 500 horses and 20,000 rounds of ammunition the cannon and machine guns arc m good condition he left fifty dead and many wounded general louis pernandez column is pur suing and unless aubert meets re-enforce ments his forces will likely be captured soon aubert is supposed to have with hlni 800 men but in his hurried flight he took no stores and must reach his base soon or suffer hunger with the ammunition captured from aubert's command and atotonilco and with that brought to jiminez this morning by train there is no fears that the rebels are m danger of running short many federal prisoners were taken they were all disarmed and sent to jlmlnea under guard while their arms and ammuni tion were turned upon their late com rades the fighting in the section between tor ic-on and jiminez 348 miles which has been m progress almost continuously nt one point and another for six days has devastated all that scope of country the food supplies of a number of towns in cluding torreon are exhausted and thon sands of people are on the verge of famine , jau business m torreon is suspended members of the madsro family la continued on 6th page sth column continued on 2d page 2d column i f Chicago and vicinity fair and slightly warmer saturday sun day unsettled with probably light showers or snow flurries at night moderate to brisk easterly winds â€¢â– rauge of temperatures yesterday average 34 jtok the awoclemoft of american mÂ»eÂ»e wall tisers has examined and certified to httjr the circulation of this publication the figures of circulation contained m the association's report only are guarantee association of american advertiser no 2300 whitehall bldg n y city

Chicago examiner saturday saturday Chicago march 30 1912 18 pages rejlstered in prtpp onf rffent delivered b carrier u s patent office tru*-e uinc '*^ n l 30 cents per monti vol x no 86 a m agitator tries to kill sheriff in fight at rock island armed man arrested for in cendiary talk draws re volver but is held by crowd before he can shoot john looney editor of paper fighting mayor to be ar rested for misuse of u s mails by postoffice officials bock island march 29 the at tempted murder of sheriff bruner and the forthcoming arrest of editor john looney were the sensational features of to-day's developments m the rock island riots only the rush of spectators saved bru iser's life his assailant john mccarthy an agitator is m jail to-night under a heavy militia guard looney as soon as he recovers from the beating administered him by mayor bchrlver will be taken into custody by the united states postoffice officials on a charge of sending scandalous libelous and obscene matter through the mails the charge is based on the publication of the story iv last saturday's issue of mr looney'ts paper the rock island news in which the editor declared that mayor scbrlver had spent a night m company with a Chicago politician a woman named ethel and another woman m a moline resort it was this story which caused the battle between looney and scbrlver the attack on the editor being held as the cause of the recent fatal riots would have shot mayor sheriff bruner m making his rounds of the dty to-night stopped at the harper hotel in the barroom mccarthy a labor agitator from galesburg was loudly pro claiming that he had witnessed tuesday's riot and that had he been possessed of a levolver he would have shot mayor schrlter sheriff bruner overheard the remark and attempted to place mccarthy under arrest without exciting the attention of the other occupants of the room as soon aa he told mccarthy that be was under new tariff bill is planned to cheapen breakfast table cost spring vegetables especially high m Chicago to be affected aiso potatoes | washington march 29 50 many ap peals have been made to the democratic house of representatives lo reduce the high cost of living that the ways and means committee is considering the ad visability of reporting out a measureâ€”al ready christened the breakfast table bill which wil lreduce the tariff on every arti cle of food used m the american household if the comittee decides on this action the bill will be the last tariff measure pre pared at this session of congress and vill be presented to the house as the culmi nating effort of the democratic majority to alleviate the condition of millions of people who find it difficult to keep their larders stocked with health-giving food the bill will aim particularly at meats fruits and vegetables and the tariffs will be low enough to allow these commodities to be brought m from other countries nnd to be sold with a reasonable profit to the dealer below the prices the housekeeper now hos to pay for the homegrown prod ucts one effect pt the bill will be to cut down the high prices now demanded for early spring vegetables by making possi ble the importation of large quantities from the south american markets appeals for relief m this direction have been made m greatest number by residents of Chicago another effect will be to open the amer ican luarket to the potatoes grown cheaply and m great quantities m labrador and the maritime provinces and it is believed that the result would be to reduce the prices paid for this staple vegetable Taft sleeps as he poses artist who painted portrait unable to keep him awake washington march 29 - theodore molkeuboer the german artist who has just finished painting president taft's portrait is relating an amusing story of how the chief executive slept for nearly two hours m an arm chair while the artist tried to keep him awake so he could get a good likeness despite the artist's ef forts mr Taft slept on and the face of the picture atoiough it is that of a man laughing was painted while the president wae dreaming he had been elected for an other term atlantic city pier burns atlantic city n j march 2r young's famous ocean pier caught fire late to-night and was almost entirely destroyed the loss is estimated at 400,000 the fire for a time threatened young's hotel facing it worth 500,000 and the dunlop hotel and savoy theater m its near vicinity the firemen however man j aged to control it let every man look at his clothes and then at the calendar to-day by j r hamilton it is just a week till easter if you don't stop to think fit now you will look like a derelict then there isn't a savage from the behring straits clear down to zambesi who doesn't at least get a new string of beads the moment he sniffs the spring it would really seem that the more clothes a man puts on the less careful he is of their looks but this is only so of america in london m paris m budapest even m cairo a good tramp will often look like a millionaire it is only m america that a good millionaire always looks like a tramp however the great majority of us being neither mil lionaires nor tramps can djford to dress well the year is prosperous crops are good business is good the only thing bad is our own bad habit of putting off the buying of clothes we'll wear an old suit till the shine on our shoes grows jealous of the shine on our trousers we'll wear our old hat as long as it doesn't actually have holes and we'll wear our old shoes longer now we have come to the time when the clothes question won't be put off easter sunday is just a week away that is the turning of the year â€” especially the turning of the clothes year everybody will be dressed up next sunday m honor of the oldest festival m the world if you don't want to feel out of place you must get into line now here is your paper all through it to-day is the advertising news of what to wear these merchants who advertise have learned to take far belter care of you than you take of yourself they have been studying the new spring styles for months even before christmas they had picked the finest fabrics from all the looms of the world and had made their choice of clothes they have been working hard for you every one of them and the things that they have done they have told you about m this paper to-day three months of their time ought to be worth five minutes of yours give it to them cheerfully turn to the advertising pages now see what they have to offer you read every advertisement large and small very often the small mer chant is going to become the large merchant when he is multiplied by time choose the style of suit and hat and boots that pleases you best pick out the man who has the finest stock of shirts and ties all of these things are represented here m the advertising news of this paper to-day turn to that news now it isjhews news you will find slays niece who jilted shoots self discarded man stalks rela tive from church sending bullets into brain falls dying at her side wasting of money saved for home cause of separation and the tragedy miss domoeole bladzius was shot and killed last night at north wood and ellen i streets by her uncle joseph ziiinzki | whom she had jilted the girl was returning from church and j had her prayer book and rosary m her bauds zilinski who had threatened her before walked behind her and fired over j the shoulder of her friend mrs rose val ancius who had accompanied her to church three bullets entered the girl's brain she died on the operating table ; at st elizabeth's hospital half an hour after zilinski fired a bullet into his r^ght temple after he was sure the girl was wounded fatally and it passed through his bead and protruded through the flesh of the left temple he was found lying m a ' pool of blood beside his sweetheart hears sermon thou shalt not kill zilinski followed his former fiancee and mrs valancius to a missionary sei-vice held m st michael's lutheran catholic church north paulina street and wabansia ave nue the sermon preached by the rev n lukaszuis was on the commandment thou shalt not kill during the services zilinski sat m the pew back of miss bladzius and mrs valancius the priest urged his congregation to make peace with its fellow men but zilinski evidently was paying little heed when the two women walked toward home after the services ilinski followed close at their heels they knew that he was behind them finally he overtook them at north wood and ellen streets mrs valancius tried to save the girl by standing close to her the infuriated sweetheart raised his arm placed the re volver over the shoulder of the older worn j an and fired the three shots that took ef ! feet m the brain of the young woman quickly then he put the bullet iv his own head that he hoped would kill him both zilinski and miss bladzius were found m the pool of blood on the walk mrs valancius bending over the girl weep ing the rosary and prayer book were held firmly iv the hands that still were clasped tightly when the girl died m the hospital zilinski though seriously injured scarce ly could be held m bed two policemen were detailed to watch him and hold him down spends 2,000 saved for a home both zilinski and bis sweetheart have l been working for the victor tailoring i company at milwaukee avenue and north wood street in spite of their blood re lationship they were engaged but not long ago the girl refused to marry him when she found that he bad spent 2,000 that they had saved for a home since then he had followed and threat ened her a week ago he hurled a brick through the window of the bladzius home and it just missed hitting the young woman a warrant was lsued for his ar rest but he could not be found as he had no fixed residence motorcycle policeman a l fitch was severely injured when going to the scene of the shooting his machine swerved against a curbstone and his right arm and right leg were hurt he too was taken to st elizabeth's hospital fitch edward eisenberg and detectives binder and sullivan of the rawson street station heard the shooting and hurried to the scene schools bar tick-tick board of education to request nick el last apparatus m buildings the committee ou school management of the board ot education decided that if the proposed telephone ordinance goes into effect nickel first telephones will not be satisfactory m the public schools the company will be asked to restore nickel last telephones in about fifty schools where it substituted nickel first tele phones recently it is said without au thority of the board a delegation from gage park appeared before the commit tee and asked for a new school m place of the four-room branch of the shields school at west fifty-fifth street and south west ern avenue another delegation asked for an addition to the ryerson school because of crowded conditions these requests were referred to the superintendent senator taylor is dying doctor has no hope for recovery wife at bedside washington d c march 29.â€”sen ator robert l taylor of tennessee is dy ing there is no hope for his recovery senator taylor is growing weaker said dr harrison crook the attending physi cian he will probably live until morn ing but bis condition is extremely crit ical mrs taylor lias been constantly at the bedsire of fiddling bob since he becam-c ill about two weeks ago i ( freel allen captured only two at large you won't get us alive their message sidna edwards photographed as he was being taken to a cell by d etectives the large picture is that of sidna allen one of the two ontl aws who are uncaptured and who say they will die fighting the picture on the right is of freel allen who was captured the other is of jack allen his father who offered to betray the clan to save his son 1 a day pensions defeated in senate instead upper house passes mccumber bill carrying 24,000,000 increase provisions of pension bill the state passed rj~ senate last night provides that > any soldier who served ninety days \ or more shall 6e placed upon the \ pension rolls on the following < basis > length of service ) age 90 dÂ»y i year 2 years 3 years c 62 13 14 15 16 5 66 15 16 17 18 s 70 18 20 22 24 jj 75 21 24 27 30 cj washington march 29.-by a rote of 51 to 16 the semite to-night defeated the sherwood dollar-a-day pension bill and passed in its stead the mccumber general age and service pension bill which will in crease the present pension roll by 24 000.000 per year the sherwood bill car ried an average annual expenditure of 56 coo.ooo for fire years under the mccumber bill the payments run from 13 a mouth for a veteran sixty two years of age who served ninety days in the military or naval service to 30 a month for a veteran of seventy-five years who served three years or more the senate bill retains only one portion of the sherwood bill as it passed the house this being the provision that gives the maximum pensiou of 30 a month to any soldier or sailor of the civil war who was wounded in the line of duty and who was honorably discharged and who is now unable to perform manual labor the semite voted down axi amendment offered by senator williams of mississippi denying the benefits of the proposed law to veterans who have an income over 1,200 a year but afterward accepted an amend ment by senator lea of tennessee denying pensions to persons whose income exceeds 2,400 the adoption of the amendment it is believed will reduce considerably the es timate of the additional annual expenditure under the measure the senate also refused to give its ap proval to an amendment that would com pel the publication of the pension list in at least one paper in each state deneen has the grip governor's physician orders him to remain m bed until monday springfield march 28 governor de neen was taken ill suddenly with the grip last evening dr l c taylor his phy sician was summoned and the executive was ordered to bed dr taylor said tbat the governor's temperature was high and that he would not be able to leave his bed before monday at the earliest to-day he passed a partxof the forenoon dictating to james whitwter his private secretary i ' \ wife shocked even reno hudson charge | files cross bill accusing her of taking part m peculiar dance there sensational charges of wild escapades m the reno dlvodce colony involving dancing of a highly improper nature m road houses near the nevada city last new year's eve are contained m a cross-bill filed yesterday by chai'les w hudson m answer to the suit for a dissolution of the marriage tie brought by his wife viola steamboat springs a resort a few miles from reno and two other road houses iv the vicinity are named by hudsou as the places where his wife took part m the fes tivities hudson who is a member of the real estate and contracting firm of hud sou &. sons 3201 south wabash avenue declares he has no objections to his wife's obtaining a divorce but is opposed to her having custody of their three-year-old daughter who is now with her grand parents m Chicago detectives employed by hudson are suid to have furnished the basis for the charges made by hudson yesterday was the last day allowed for the filing of hudson's answer to the suit and the preparations for a contest which he has evidently made are taken as an indication that there will be a bitter legal battle over the affair he hopes to gain his case without leaving Chicago the cross bill was filed following the overrul ing of his demurrer by judge ducker m the superior court at reno when a woman becomes notorious m the free and easy divorce colony she has to do quite a little said he every day mrs hudson stays m the nevada city she adds to the proof that she ought not to be allowed to have the child and i tblnk that she is defeating her own purpose mrs hudson formerly was miss viola mckenna judge elbridge hanecy is coun sel for hudson who resides at 4129 prai rie avenue boy prisoner tells how court house shooting was done by clan by joseph j o'neil hillsville va march 20 1t will be a battle to the death if the detectives ever take us back to hillsville it will be m a wagon with our toes turned up and our boots on and there will be some of them m the same wagon neither of us expects to see home or family again we have three revolvers and a pump gun and plenty of ammuni tion if we are sighted we will shoot to kill we will never surrender this message from sidna allen and wes ley edwards was brought into town this afternoon by young freel allen a girlish looking lad of seventeen who had been hiding out m the mountains since the courthouse slaughter he was captured to-day unresistingly hiding iv the car riage house behind his father's home eight miles from here he left his uncle sidna and his cousin wesley two nights ago be cause as he expressed it he was plum starved out in addition to thrilling defiance he brought m the grave and important news that the court house shooting really was the result of a conspiracy---that the aliens planned it m advance r.nd that sida allen and wesley edwards at least had their victims selected tells how plot was arranged when we were lying out there under a shelved rock and hiding m the laurels and ivy said freel to the detectives uncle sidna said he had killed his man that was judge massie cousin wesley allowed that he had killed will foster the prosecu tor uncle sidna told me and wesley he had emptied his pistol three times and that what he was tvying to do was to kill the judge the jurors and the whole d d push he and wes said they had made it up beforehand uncle sid was to get judge massie wes was to shoot at will foster and some of the others of our crowd were to kill sheriff webb and dcx goad the olerk when freel left the others on wednes day night they were m a wild rugged section of the mountain tops twenty-one miles southwest of here they had been there eight or nine days ready for a fight at any moment every night camp they had made was close to some trank of a miss newberry is bride london march 28 â€” announcement was made to-day of the marriage of captain wentworth alieyne of the queen's ilegi ment and miss carol barnes newberry daughter of truman newberry of detroit former secretary olk the navy ships hired to rush u.s troops to mexico coastwise companies asked to be m readiness to convey soldiers 2 battleships and cruiser for new orleans entire army probably will be moved for invasion m april miles first time m months visits white house federal army under aubert is m full retreat before rebels guns dead and wounded are left behind washington march :.'.).â€” so critical is the situation m mexico that the united states government has entered into nego tiations with practically every steamship company operating vessels m the eastern coast trade to transport troops to that country for the purpose of interveutiou among these companies are the souts ern pacific which operates a line of big ships between new york and new orleans the mallory line which piies between new york and galveston the clyde line op erating between new york and jackson ville the ward line operating betvrene new york and havana it is understood also the government 1 ' also m negotiation with the united fruit company which owns thirty big ships many of them new and all constructed especially for transportation m the tropica it was admitted to-night by quartermas ter general j i aleshire that negotiation for steamship lines for the transportation of troops are now m progress secretary meyer announced to-day that two first-class battleships and a cruiser will be ordered at once to new orleans to participate m the celebration of the centennial of the admission of louisiana into the union as a state wilson can summon marines it is stated to-night however that the real object m sending these ships to the gulf of mexico is to have them handy to vera cruz where it is probable that they will be called upon to land marines at any time instructions were cabled to ambassador wil.-on to-day at mexico city authorizing him to summon marines to the aid of the embassy as soon as the situation becomes serious enough to demand such action the gunboat wheeling which has a small body of marines is now at galveston the cruiser montgomery at pensacola the nashville at santo domingo the paducah at santa cruz del sur cubs and the petrel at guantanamo all of these ships put to gether could only land 200 marines but added to bluejackets would afford an ac tive force of 600 men aubert m full retreat villa lopez chili mexico march 28 by courier to jimmezv after being caught m a trap and seemingly sur rounded on all sides by rebels pounding a terrible artillery fire into his ranks the federal command of general aubert whe managed to extricate himself last night got away in doing so he left behind one heavy cannon one mortar two machine guns 500 horses and 20,000 rounds of ammunition the cannon and machine guns arc m good condition he left fifty dead and many wounded general louis pernandez column is pur suing and unless aubert meets re-enforce ments his forces will likely be captured soon aubert is supposed to have with hlni 800 men but in his hurried flight he took no stores and must reach his base soon or suffer hunger with the ammunition captured from aubert's command and atotonilco and with that brought to jiminez this morning by train there is no fears that the rebels are m danger of running short many federal prisoners were taken they were all disarmed and sent to jlmlnea under guard while their arms and ammuni tion were turned upon their late com rades the fighting in the section between tor ic-on and jiminez 348 miles which has been m progress almost continuously nt one point and another for six days has devastated all that scope of country the food supplies of a number of towns in cluding torreon are exhausted and thon sands of people are on the verge of famine , jau business m torreon is suspended members of the madsro family la continued on 6th page sth column continued on 2d page 2d column i f Chicago and vicinity fair and slightly warmer saturday sun day unsettled with probably light showers or snow flurries at night moderate to brisk easterly winds â€¢â– rauge of temperatures yesterday average 34 jtok the awoclemoft of american mÂ»eÂ»e wall tisers has examined and certified to httjr the circulation of this publication the figures of circulation contained m the association's report only are guarantee association of american advertiser no 2300 whitehall bldg n y city